"Better Than That" is a powerful memoir of endurance, transformation, and the quiet strength that carries us through life's hardest moments. From her early years in Spring Hope, North Carolina, Emma Williams recounts a life shaped by generational hardships, personal loss, and resilience passed down through her family. Raised in poverty and burdened by emotional trauma, Emma's journey is not only filled with adversity—but persistence as well. She reflects on her complicated relationship wit...

Operation Soteria—a major Home Office-funded initiative—examined how police investigate rape and serious sexual offences. This book focuses on a critical but often overlooked aspect of that project: the role of learning, development, and officer wellbeing in these challenging investigations.The book challenges a widespread assumption: that more training and continuous professional development will fix the persistent failures in rape investigation. The research reveals something mor...

Realist Evaluation: Principles and Practice offers a comprehensive exploration of contemporary realist evaluation, showcasing how skilled practitioners navigate diverse fieldwork contexts.Authored by experts spanning academia and evaluation backgrounds across five continents in fields including climate change, criminology, health, and international development, the book provides a rich tapestry of perspectives. Covering participatory approaches, digital and visual data col...

Want to get that fellowship?Writing a fellowship application can feel messy, complex and overwhelming. Brilliant ideas get buried under structure, jargon and uncertainty - and the pressure of a deadline rarely helps clear thinking.The Researcher Canvas Workbook helps you step back and see the whole picture.Built around a one-page visual framework developed over years of coaching researchers through funding applications, this workbook is designed for...

Thinking of starting a postdoc? Want to know how to move on from a postdoc? Or simply want to make the best of your postdoc years? Being a postdoc is not a career... but it can be the pivotal point in the making of one. This friendly, practical, and occasionally humorous guide to all things postdoc combines the three authors' vast experience of postdoc careers and personal development.This is a guide to developing, advancing and furthering yourself and your career. In working throu...

The early career research stage is tough. Interesting, intellectually challenging, pushing back frontiers of knowledge, working with talented people from around the world - all fantastic things. But have you ever ...Wondered what on earth the next career step is going to be?Felt surrounded by researchers who are brighter and more together than you?Felt overwhelmed by the sheer volume of 'stuff' you are supposed to do as a researcher?Looked at tho...

After a major invasion of the Gaza Strip in late 2008, twenty-year-old Mahmoud Barghout decided to become a zookeeper. He saw that the children around him were exhausted by war, and so to provide respite, he set up the Happy Land Zoo. But the war made feeding and caring for the animals impossible—they died of thirst, hunger, or injury—and replacing them meant finding large sums of money and overcoming the blockade or the risk of bringing them in through tunnels connecting the Strip to Egyp...

This book draws together advances in the understanding, assessment and treatment of stress, negative symptoms, social anxiety, OCD, PTSD and mood disturbance in people with a diagnosis of psychosis, providing a practical guide for clinicians. CBT for psychosis draws on the principles and interventions developed for anxiety and depression and adapts these to treat psychotic symptoms. CBT for schizophrenia is now widely accepted as an effective treatment in the reduction of psychotic symptom...

This training manual addresses the need for a practical and easily accessible guide for professionals working with people presenting with anger problems. It is intended for use by psychologists, OTs, psychiatric nurses, probation officers, psychiatrists, social workers and teachers. This training manual offers a wealth of photocopiable material, including client handouts and facilitators guides. The appendices contain materials for role-play and relaxation. "Anger Control Training" is a co...

A deeply affecting memoir and a unique contribution to our understanding of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. In August 2000 Emma Williams arrived with her three small children in Jerusalem to join her husband and to work as a doctor. A month later, the second Palestinian intifada erupted. For the next three years, she was to witness an astonishing series of events in which hundreds of thousands of lives, including her own, were turned upside down. Williams lived on the very border of East...

The Ways We Think critiques predominant approaches to the development of thinking in education and seeks to offer a new account of thought informed by phenomenology, post-structuralism and the ‘ordinary language’ philosophical traditions.Presents an original account of thinking for education and explores how this alternative conception of thought might be translated into the classroomExplores connections between phenomenology, post-structuralism and ordinar...

Thinking of starting a postdoc? Want to know how to move on from a postdoc? Or simply want to make the best of your postdoc years? Being a postdoc is not a career ... but it can be the pivotal point in the making of one. This friendly, practical, and occasionally humorous guide to all things postdoc combines the three authors’ vast experience of postdoc careers and personal development.This is a guide to developing, advancing and furthering yourself and your career. In working through ex...